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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
proceeds
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
net
▪ CrossCom says that it plans to use the net proceeds for new product development and for working capital.
▪ Foundation treasurer Alan Wilson said net proceeds are about $ 182, 000, with about 11, 000 pairs to sell.
▪ Immediately after issue the amount attributable to an instrument within non-equity shareholders' funds should be the net proceeds of the issue.
▪ The net proceeds from the issue of equity shares and warrants for equity shares should be credited directly to shareholders' funds.
▪ Immediately after issue, debt should be stated at the amount of the net proceeds. 25.
total
▪ It said if the option is fully exercised, total gross proceeds of the issue will be about $ 46.6-million.
▪ The total proceeds of the sale were approximately £2,900 million.
■ NOUN
sale
▪ If the new investment is only made after the sale proceeds are realised, the total delay could be up to three weeks.
▪ That person should be liable for the business expenses and entitled to the sale proceeds. 5.
▪ A seller will receive the accrued interest on top of the sale proceeds.
■ VERB
invest
▪ Friday, January 5, 1996 Closedend funds sell a limited number of shares and invest the proceeds in securities.
sell
▪ If the claim was rejected, the animal was sold, with the proceeds going to the government.
▪ The shares were then sold and the proceeds used by Maxwell, the prosecution alleged.
▪ His property is sold and the proceeds distributed among his creditors.
▪ Y may be sold short and the proceeds invested in X yielding a riskless return for no investment.
▪ The toys will be sold with proceeds going to the trust and the closing date for entries is March 31.
▪ Sellers are too illiquid and therefore wish to sell, the proceeds making them more liquid.
share
▪ Then home we would go and share out the proceeds from our trip.
▪ Henry offered a generous plan that allowed each person to designate a church of his choice to share tax proceeds.
▪ In addition, employees share the proceeds of company success either through general productivity bonuses or bonuses attributed to their particular section.
▪ After the syndicate earned back the $ 25, 000, the brothers and the syndicate would share equally in the proceeds.
▪ When he published Donahue: My Own Story, he shared byline and proceeds with other staffers.
spend
▪ Rain wished he had some one to make sure he spent part of the proceeds on smartening up his flat.
use
▪ CrossCom says that it plans to use the net proceeds for new product development and for working capital.
▪ When investors sell marks for yen, they generally sell marks for dollars first and then use the proceeds to buy yen.
▪ They say the culprits may be using the proceeds to buy drugs.
▪ The health-insurance holding concern said it will use proceeds from the two-year, adjustable-rate line to finance agents' receivables.
▪ It said it will use the net proceeds to acquire long-life natural gas reserves and exploit development opportunities.
▪ It also sells Lacandon crafts in the gift shop, and uses the proceeds to support its work in the jungle.
▪ When your mortgage comes to an end, you will use the proceeds to pay off your loan.
▪ Gadzooks said it will use proceeds to finance the opening of 45 to 50 new stores this year.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All the proceeds from the concert will go to charity.
▪ His first year in business was so successful that John could afford to buy a delivery van with the proceeds.
▪ The proceeds of the sale of the house went to an animal-welfare charity, as stated in the owner's will.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A Gramm spokesman said the airwave proceeds alone would amount to $ 8. 4 billion over five years.
▪ CrossCom says that it plans to use the net proceeds for new product development and for working capital.
▪ Henry offered a generous plan that allowed each person to designate a church of his choice to share tax proceeds.
▪ In his book, Mowat proceeds to a detailed analysis of the part played by MacDonald in the crisis.
▪ Net proceeds will be used to repay short and long-term debt, refinance long term debt and for working capital.
▪ Physicians Resource said it will use proceeds for acquisitions, working capital, capital expenditures and letters of credit.
▪ The money is to go in a penalty box kept by Grandmother; the proceeds will go to a charity.
▪ There are just better and better placements as intellectual development proceeds.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Proceeds

Proceeds \Pro"ceeds\, n. pl. That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
proceeds

"results, profits," 1660s, from proceed (v.) on the notion of "that which proceeds" from some event or activity.

Wiktionary
proceeds

n. 1 revenue; gross revenue. 2 profits; net revenue. vb. (en-third-person singular of: proceed)

WordNet
proceeds

n. the income arising from land or other property; "the average return was about 5%" [syn: return, issue, take, takings, yield, payoff]

Usage examples of "proceeds".

Those cities, then, were long the destinations of the treasure-fleet, and accordingly it is at Bonanza that the Viceroy, at the beginning of his reign, laid the cornerstone of a palace to receive the proceeds of his relentless, corrupt, and gluttonous pillagings.

Dureau de la Malle proceeds to argue that Rome, as contained within the walls of Servius Tullius, occupying an area only one fifth of that of Paris, could not have contained 300,000 inhabitants.

Sitionius then proceeds, according to the duty of a panegyrist, to transfer the whole merit from Aetius to his minister Avitus.

That is, evolution proceeds irreversibly in the direction of increasing differentiation/integration, increasing structural organization, and increasing complexity.

He then proceeds to explain why his position is intrinsically superior.

For wherever development proceeds, we must, at the very least, distinguish between depth and span, not only because there are objective (real) correlates to the distinction, but because to fail to do so, even under the guise of being "holistic,"

And he then proceeds, as saw in chapter 1, to show that the very belief in this systems view is self-contradictory.

But the farther succession proceeds, the more fully the universe is unfolded.

He promised to split the proceeds between the black churches and various disabled veterans' and breast cancer research groups.

Needless to say, he went about it in a heavy-handed way, and when the university's legal department began to receive his sullen letters, it responded by informing both Andrew's lawyer, and Randy, that anyone who used the university's computer system to create a commercial product had to split the proceeds with the university.

All proceeds will be redistributed among our shareholders, who will hardly notice, since Spreadsheet 265 demonstrates that, by this time, the company will be larger than the British Empire at its zenith.

The question, then, will be how the proceeds of the sale should be divided between you and her.

He slams open the door at the end of the coach and proceeds into the next car.

Let them keep a big cut of the proceeds in exchange for not hassling us.

His English started out minimal and is getting better and better as the evening proceeds, as if he is slowly dusting off substantial banks of memory and processing power, nursing them on-line like tube amplifiers.